Oral history interview with Phyllis S. Jaffe, 2000

Biographical Note

Lawyer

Scope and Contents

Childhood; Family life; Queens College (graduated 1944); Experiences in Women's Army Corps; Transfer from Columbia University Graduate School of Anthropology to Columbia Law School; Experiences at Columbia University Law School; Married life; Moot court; First job in a Bronx storefront law firm; Years off to raise family; Community Involvement; Board of Education: Return to work at Prentis Hall; Work in labor position at New York City Office of Collective Bargaining Board of Education; Ida Klaus; Noble Gividen and the Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES); Experiences as staff lawyer and specific cases for BOCES; Origins of Plunkett and Jaffe law firm; Women and discrimination in law practice; Death of husband; Opinions on major trends and changes of law and educational law; Gratitude towards Columbia Law School

Subjects

• Columbia University. School of Law--Alumni and alumnae.
• Grele, Ronald J., interviewer.
• Interviews.
• Jaffe, Phyllis S.--Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Women lawyers--Interviews.

Access Conditions

Copyright by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 2001